"How the 1919 Paris Peace settlements shaped today’s world" with historian Margaret MacMillan
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- in conversation with Simon Kuper.
Just after WWI, at the Paris peace conference of 1919, the leaders of the US, UK and France met in Paris to make peace and wind up four empires. They created new states such as Iraq and Syria. They imposed reparations and other penalties on Germany, which had just lost the war. They agreed to create a League of Nations, the forerunner to the United Nations. It was the start of a new era that saw the spread of Bolshevism, the growing importance of international public opinion, and the notion that nations had the right to self-determination. How did the Paris Peace Settlements shape the world we live in now?
Margaret MacMillan is one of today's best-known historians and international-relations experts. She’s a professor of History at the University of Toronto and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University, specializing in British imperial history and the international history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Paris 1919 (with an introduction by Richard Holbrook) won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. MacMillan’s other books include Nixon and Mao: the Week that Changed the World and The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914.
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This PAN U class was co-sponsored by The American Library in Paris. ALP is the largest English-language library on the European continent, now celebrating its 100th year as a cultural bridge between France and the US.
What a fascinating lecture.I intended just to visit but stayed for the whole thing. The informality of the lecture and Ms. Macmillan's personality add to the intrerest as well. Thank youse whoever youse are.
What a fascinating talk, thanks so much - throws a lot of light onto the way the world is today. We all somehow "know" this Treaty was immensely important, but never stop to wonder why. Very concisely explained - enjoyed that.
Always great to hear - or read - Margaret McMillan.
M.MacMillan knows a great deal about WWI and the consequences that followed!
Fascinating sharing! I learned this part of history through an American Foreign Policy course, but this discussion adds so much colour to the context and complexity of what happened in 1919.
I now have a copy of the book, and very much look forward to reading it!
Interesting programme, but Macmillan does not declare she is related to Lloyd George. To the Irish he was crafty, duplicitous and in the words of one historian spoke out of both sides of his mouth. His meddling in the Greek-Turkish conflict during 1922-23 led to the massacre at Smyrna. There was still conflict in Europe and the Middle East into the early 1920's.
Fascinating
Fantastic talk
For the central powers, Why is Germany the major player during the war years, and not the older, larger, powerful Austro-Hungarian empire?
WW2/WW1 was result of denying sovereignty of a few European nations, Germany, Hungary, Austria, felt they were being dictated on internal matters.
How do you decide who is the other? Old views against new truth. A new confidence or new circumstance to reject an old equation. World can never remain the same, a new power is born every century.